BIRDS OF INDIANA. 585* 



Turkeys," and in the Northwest Territory they are called by the na- 

 tives "Crow Duck." Although a sea bird, and breeding along the 

 shores of the Atlantic from the southern borders of the British pos- 

 sessions on the west side, they nevertheless breed at some places in 

 the interior of America. Formerly they were known to breed in 

 Iowa, but perhaps none now nest south of some favorite lakes in 

 Minnesota and Dakota. Prof. Macoun notes them as breeding abun- 

 dantly in northwestern Canada, at Lake Winnepegosis, in 1881 

 (Thompson, Birds of Manitoba, p. 473). The food of Cormorants is 

 fish. They may be seen along watercourses and about lakes during the 

 migration, often singly, but many times from ten to a dozen together. 

 To one unacquainted with them they appear as ducks with a peculiar 

 manner of flight, but when they are seen to alight on the projecting 

 limb of some tree that overhangs the water, it at once becomes ap- 

 parent that the bird is something else. 



22. (120rt.) Phalacrocorax dilophus floridanus (Auo.). 



Florida Cormorant. 



Similar to the last species, but smaller. Length, 21.25-30.00; wing, 

 12.00; bill, 2.10. 



RANGE. Southeastern United States north to North Carolina, 

 Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Breeds north to Ohio. 



Nest and Eggs. Similar to those of last species. 



The Florida Cormorant is a migrant and perhaps a rare summer 

 resident in southern Indiana. A few may remain through the winter, 

 when the weather is not too severe. Some years ago it was thought 

 the Cormorant most commonly seen in the Ohio Valley was this 

 species. In later years examination of specimens shows that the ma- 

 jority of occurrences are of the Double-crested Cormorant. Whether 

 it or the present species was formerly the more common, I have no 

 means of determining. The birds have been largely destroyed or 

 forced to withdraw from this range. Prof. 0. P. Jenkins found it as 

 far up the Wabash Eiver as Terre Haute. Dr. Stein met with it on 

 the Lower Wabash. Mr. Robert Ridgway notes it as ranging up the 

 Wabash River as far as Mt. Carmel, 111. He thinks it is a summer resi- 

 dent and probably breeds in Knox and Gibson counties. I have the 

 skull of a specimen taken near Brookville in 1877. Dr. F. W. Lang r 

 don notes it from the vicinity of Cincinnati (Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., I, 1879, p. 186). The same gentleman, in his observations on 

 Cincinnati Birds, gives the following account, by Mr. Chas. Dury, of 



